Patterns
"Patterns" was an American television play broadcast live on January 12, 1955, remade as a film the next year with some of the same cast. Fred Staples is the newest executive in a large firm. He strikes up a friendship with Andy Sloane, the Vice President to whom he nominally reports. Staples is good at his job and the company's hard-nosed president, Walter Ramsey, is pleased with his choice. Staples has a crisis of conscience when Ramsey tells him that he's been recruited to replace Sloane, someone who has devoted his entire life to the company at the expense of his family. Sloane knows what Ramsey is up to but digs in his heels and refuses to quit. Tragedy ensues forcing Staples to make a choice.
Richard Kileyas Fred StaplesEverett Sloaneas Mr. RamsieEd Begleyas Andy SloaneElizabeth Montgomeryas Ann EvansJune Daytonas Fran StaplesElizabeth Wilsonas Marge FlemingJoanna Roosas Miss LanierJack Arthuras StarterJoy Lafleuras Miss StevensSybil Bakeras Telephone OperatorShirley Standleeas Miss HillTheodore Newtonas Mr. GordonJack Liveseyas Mr. JamiesonRonnie Welshas Paul SloaneRon HarperVictor HarrisonHelen LudlamJoseph MacauleyDouglas Rutherford